Reed Smith‘s practice spans transactional, regulatory, and litigation and dispute resolution disciplines. The firm focuses on client-specific solutions by drawing on the experience of its lawyers around the world.

Reed Smith represents many of the world's leading companies in high-stakes disputes, strategic transactions, and crucial regulatory matters, with an uncommon commitment to developing long-term client relationships by delivering quality service and value.

Community Access

With lawyers from coast-to-coast in the United States, as well as throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, Reed Smith is a leading international law firm. Each of our offices has a full understanding of, and appreciation for, local business culture and client needs.

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For a law firm, pro bono is at the heart of any Responsible Business program. As lawyers, we do pro bono in order to make legal advice and the legal system more accessible to all. Beyond pro bono, lawyers and staff members volunteer their time on a wide variety of community service initiatives involving no legal assistance at all. The firm's Responsible Business program includes initiatives in the areas of Pro Bono, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Environment, Supply Chain and Ethics & Risk Management. At Reed Smith, we believe Responsible Business is about who we are and who we want to be. It is about how we conduct ourselves with and towards others and with the worlds in which we live.

Reed Smith's contributions to pro bono and Responsible Business bring the members of our firm closer together, and deepen our understanding of the communities in which we live.

Pro Bono

Reed Smith is a proud charter signatory to the Pro Bono Institute's Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge, devoting more than three percent of our billable time to pro bono work. We are also a founding member of Advocates for International Development and a signatory to the United Kingdom Joint Protocol for Pro Bono Work.

In 2014, 72 percent of lawyers in our U.S., European and Middle Eastern offices did pro bono work valued--if expressed at normal billable rates--at more than $35 million. The Firm performed more than 77,000 pro bono hours in 2014. We are proud that our pro bono efforts have received prominent recognition and awards.

Work in the Community

The community investment programs at Reed Smith are an essential part of the firm's core values and culture. We aim to fill the most pressing needs in our local communities and to make longstanding partnerships with community groups in order to develop key projects which harness the skills, resources and passions of our staff and lawyers.

Community highlights in the U.S. include:

We deliver hot Holiday meals to those suffering from AIDS.

We conduct clothing and gift drives for homeless and lower income people.

We buy and deliver Holiday toys to needy children in foster care.

We volunteer at events that entertain the homeless.

We prepare meals for homeless children.

We collect cell phones for battered women and almost-new and never-used toys for children with no toys.

We repair houses of elderly and disabled people.

We serve as mentors to high school students in at-risk communities.

We received the "Platinum Award" for our contribution to the United Way.

We fund and participate in numerous Walks, Runs, and Rides that benefit charitable causes.

Community highlights in Europe and the Middle East and Asia (EMEA) include:

Our London office runs a weekly clinic, where female personnel volunteer at U-Turn, a charity that works with vulnerable and hard to reach women of all ages who have been trapped in cycles of prostitution, drug addiction, physical abuse and homelessness.

In partnership with charity Create and the City and Newham Carers Centre, our London office run a number of volunteering sessions, providing participants with the opportunity to focus on themselves for a few hours, make new support networks, learn new creative skills, improve their communication and teamwork skills and gain self-confidence and self-esteem.

In 2014, our London office partnered with our client Andaz to support Providence Row’s Bakery project, a social enterprise which provides additional training and employment opportunities for homeless and vulnerable people.

Our Paris office supports Enfance et Partage (Childhood and Sharing) by sending lawyers and administrators twice a month to the charity to assist them with their work.

Our UAE offices, for the third year in a row, welcomed Emirati interns from the UAE University and provided them with mentoring and skills training.

Our mainland China offices work with Smile Train, a charity that provides corrective surgery for children with cleft lips and palates, to help them with various employment and registration contracts review.

Environment

Reed Smith is committed to minimising our harm to the environment and we expect each individual and office to assist. We teach staff that “being green” is not restrictive – quite the opposite - it frees up more time, energy and resources for other things. We believe that what is good for the environment is good for us too, as individuals, as a community and as a business. Across the firm, we are encouraging and enabling changes to become second nature.

To learn more about the CSR programme in EMEA, please see our EMEA CSR Report.

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